http://www.myshelf.com/teen/fiction/02/coraline.htm
http://www.readersread.com/cgi-bin/review.pl?reviewid=90212
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Okayed a couple of locations in e-mail, and had a long chat with the Costume designer (she was on a mobile in the Isle of Man), talked to John Bolton about the painting he'll be doing.
There's a strangely buoying feeling to the process at this point. One in which the people you work with seem much more pleased than otherwise that you know what you want.
Leave for UK tomorrow. I'll find out when I'm there if I'll get a day or so to fly up to Northern Scotland on a research thing for the new American Gods longish short story (which has a working title of "Shadow's Shadow").